The GSA has partnered with the Genetics Society of Japan (GSJ), the Genetics Society of China (GSC) and the International Genetics Federation (IGF) to host international seminars for the Asia-Pacific Region.
Seminars are one-hour virtual talks held on Zoom, four times per year, showcasing high quality research from diverse areas of genetics and aim to foster interactions between research groups and societies. The seminars are free, but registration is required.
Upcoming seminars
You are warmly invited to join the 2025 ECR Symposium: Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology on Tuesday, 30th September 2025 (online).
The symposium will feature talks from Dr. Sarah Whiteley, Dr. Fei Huang, and Dr. Koichi Kitao, with Dr. Boris Yagound as moderator.
Register here
Past seminars and lectures
Assoc. Prof. Catherine Grueber: “Monitoring and maintaining genetic diversity: from local to global and back again”
July 9th, 2025
Assoc. Prof. Taiko To: “Target selection and environmental stress control of epigenetic modifications in plants”
May 29th, 2025
Prof. Qiaomei Fu: “Genomic Insights into Human Population Diversity, Migration and Evolution in Ancient East Asia”
April 30th, 2025
Prof. Mike Bunce: “From PCR to policy: Effective use of genetic tools in environmental, conservation & pandemic management”
October 21st, 2024
Prof. Rachel O’Neill: “Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assemblies: shining a light on repeat biology and chromosome dynamics”
July 2nd, 2024
Prof. Melanie Bahlo: “Understanding retinal diseases by combining genetics, metabolomics and imaging data”
November 13th, 2023
Prof. Jun Kitano: “Ecological genetics of adaptation and speciation in sticklebacks”
September 28th, 2023
Assoc. Prof. Kim Handley: “Adaptations to physicochemical stress: some like it salty and some like it hot”
August 22nd, 2023
2023 Gruber Genetics Prize lectures: Prof. Allan Jacobson and Prof. Lynne E. Maquat
July 19th, 2023
Prof. Guojie Zhang: “Evolutionary Significance of Incomplete Lineage Sorting”
May 11th, 2023
Prof. John Bowman: “The origin and evolution of land plants”
November 17th, 2022
Prof. Lisa Matisoo-Smith: “The last great human migration: Recent advances in understanding human settlement of the Pacific”
September 21st, 2022
Prof. Emeritus Tomoko Ohta: “Near-Neutrality, Epigenetics and Transposable Elements”
May 24th, 2022